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Metal Embossing Made Easy

July 1, 2016Uncategorizedbezel, coin, coinology, coins, copper, craft, death, dying, ej gold, emboss, eternal, gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, metal, metal emboss, metal embossing, path, reincarnation, service, silver, skull, skulls, source, vendorgorebagg

Handmade by Local Artisan, only $3 bucks each, come and get it!!! — Handmade Metal Embossings by Local Artisan! Only $3 bucks apiece!!! Look Here!

“Hi, I need some cash fast, and I’m on the street selling these things for which I usually ask fifty bucks, but like I said, I need some cash, so I’m selling them for only $3 bucks apiece, metal ebmossings mounted in a coin flip, like you see here. Can you help me out? How many would you like?”

Metal Embossing? It’s cheap, and it’s a total cinch to make ’em, and a total cinch to sell ’em, when you know a few tricks of the trade. Metal embossing is a terrific way for a new artist of ANY age and persuasion to get out there with their artwork, and it’s a great way to get your art into multimedia without a lot of fuss and horrible expenses.

For an established artist, it’s a no-brainer. It puts your art into an affordable category for an original work of art. Usually it’ll be a signed and numbered multiple, which this isn’t. It’s a total original, and an established artist can ask the moon for these things.

Doubt it? Imagine what the price would be for a coin-sized embossed metal piece if you could PROVE that it was made and signed by Picasso? How about Rosenquist, or Lichtenstein, or Warhol, or Basquiat?

I think you get the picture. Continue reading →

24k Truth

June 19, 2016Uncategorizedamulet, brane, charm, coin, coinology, contact, copper, cosmo, ej gold, gold, gorby, gorebagg, higher, jewelry, locket, medallion, membrane, nirvanic, norton, pendant, sales, samsaric, sell, silver, talisman, work of artgorebagg

Gold is a product of a succession of stellar explosions and reformulations, yielding more and more complex atoms at each star reformation.

The 24k solid gold medallions are the most powerful CONTACT coins in the world. There is no metal exactly like gold, and gold is the key to opening and passing through dimensional portals.

Gold has “reach”. It “continues” in various dimensions, notably the Six Nirvanic Worlds, which cannot be reached with other metals. Gold is always gold. It never changes, and it has its own “constant”, which will someday be important to scientists. You can carve a simple visual “bumpy” message into PURE gold, and it can be read in the Higher Planes.

Gold Tokens can be made from scratch. They need not be altered coins and in fact, I don’t recommend altering gold coins at all. I work on a flat, hammered planchette or disk, fairly thin, at about 13mm in diameter, to fit into the 14k gold “U.S. $1 Gold Piece” Locket, which retails out at about $450-$650, depending on the artwork.

I wholesale those out at $112.50 apiece, which barely accommodates the cost of the metal and, in fact, at an art or crafts fair, I can make about $7,500 an hour just putting beads on strings and making someone’s name on a copper bracelet, but you couldn’t pay me enough to actually do that — I’m just making a point here about labor and art and what the art is worth.

I think the artwork that I engrave and etch into every single one of my little gold plaques is worth a whole lot more than fifty bucks, but I’m willing to let YOU take the profit. If you want to use some of your profit to assist the Sangha, it’s entirely up to you.

Those gold lockets should, and can, and DO, sell for hundreds of bucks, not because it’s gold, or because it’s magic or quantum, but because it’s a WORK OF ART by an actual working world-class listed American Official White House and IAJE Artist, not a mass-produced mechanical lump spat out of an all-too-common stamp-out machine somewhere overseas and off-shore, and I never said the word “China”. Continue reading →

Take the Copper Challenge

May 10, 2015Uncategorizedbead kits, beads, copper, craft kits, do it yourself, ejgold, emo, emo beads, emo indicators, gems, gemstones, gorby, gorebagg, indicator, jal, jewelry, jewels, kits, mood beads, projects, self help, wiregorebagg

Normal Blue Emo-Indicators are sparked by Ancient Style Copper Hedgehog Beads.

NORMAL BLUE MEDITATION BRACELET KIT — $49.95

The EMO INDICATOR beads turn colors when worn. Many years ago, a primitive version of this bead was called a “Mood Ring”. The space-age materials used now are very much lighter and more resistant to wear. NORMAL BLUE is a meditation device attuned to the Schumann Harmonic. Keep in the Blue and enjoy Deep Meditation & Infinite Harmony. Here’s how to construct your Normal Blue Meditation Bracelet: Continue reading →

ZOOMSHOP – Tribal Copper Earrings

May 10, 2015Uncategorized.16 gauge, bead, copper, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, hammer, hammered, heavy wire, homemade, jal, project, wire, wooden bead, zoomshopgorebagg

Wooden beads are cheap and make experimentation fun.

If you happen to have a roll of .16 gauge copper wire handy, you’ll appreciate this beginner’s project, the Bead Curtain. Make some WOUND WIRE RONDELS on your large miniature screwdriver, and be sure to cut them FLUSH ON BOTH ENDS.
Cut some 3″ long .16 gauge CORE WIRES, and be sure to FLUSH CUT ON BOTH ENDS.
Now make a GENEROUS loop on one end of your core wire, and bring the end ALL THE WAY to close it against itself.
TUG BACK on the main body of the core wire so that the loop is a perfect lollipop shape.
Drop one or two WIRE RONDELS onto the core wire, then your wooden bead or beads, then one or two more wire rondels. If you used one, then use one again. If you used two, then use two to match on the other side of the main bead, as show in photo. You can combine any colors, shapes and sizes of wooden beads you want to have on there, the crazier and more random, the better. Make sure the beads don’t weigh too much, because the earring mustn’t be too heavy to actually wear.
Now make a CLOSING LOOP on the other end of the core wire, and you have a complete ELEMENT, which can be combined with other ELEMENT DROPS, as shown in photo.
Side view of simple beginner’s .16 gauge Tribal Earring project.
You can open the loop TO THE SIDE to preserve the loop’s perfect lollipop shape, and slip it onto another element.
Make the HOOP, the main body of the earring, by making a LOLLIPOP LOOP at one end of a 3″ long .16 gauge wire, FLUSH CUT ON BOTH ENDS, making sure to roll the closing loop over the first loop, as shown in photo.
Feed a WOODEN SEPARATOR BEAD of whatever size you like onto the HOOP, then add one wire drop element, then another separator bead, another element, another separator bead, another element, another separator bead, until you have THREE WIRE DROPS and FOUR WOODEN BEAD SEPARATORS on your HOOP.
Now make two .20 gauge ancient-style ear wires as shown, and attach them by opening the .16 gauge loops, ALWAYS TO THE SIDE. Never open a loop by making it bigger. Continue reading →

Jewels of Ancient Lands Goes to the Fair

May 4, 2015Uncategorizedcopper, craft fair, crafts fair, dorje, ejgold, fair, gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, pendants, rings, show, silvergorebagg

Old Gorby showing a customer some wrapped meteorite pendants which had attracted her attention.

We had a slowish day at the fair, but managed to squeak by with a total of $420 in sales, mostly from fellow vendors, with a few wandering shoppers here and there. Cost of the booth was $30. If you bring in ten times the booth fee, you’re doing well these days, they tell me. The beautiful display stands were hand-built by Wayne, and they fit four standard jeweler’s pads precisely. Continue reading →

JAL Stone Age Jewelry Factoids

April 24, 2015Uncategorizedanger, anger management, build, copper, crafting, design, ejgold, empowerment, fear, gauge, gemstones, gold, gorby, gorebagg, ideal size gemstone, jal, jewelry, reincarnation, samples, silver, smithing, stonesgorebagg

Polychromed lid from one of my coffins, c. 1300 B.C.

The IDEAL Gemstone size-range for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is 5mm up to 10mm. Lightweight stones or beads can be as large as 14mm, but it’s not recommended. Can smaller stones be used?

Smaller high-grade expensive Gemstones can be used by doubling the stones in the vertical plane, or adding them as dependents, drops or loops. Two small stones add up to more visual impact than one larger stone, even at the same carat-weight, not sure why.

The ONLY acceptable drill-hole sizes for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is what can fit on a .16 gauge or .20 gauge COPPER wire. Larger drill-holes don’t necessarily help, and very large drill-holes can make the bead or the bead arrangement unstable and wobbly.

When you work in copper, it’s your work the customer is buying. When you work in silver or gold, you get the same pay for your work, but you must also sell the precious metals, and the customer NEVER understands that they are getting back a cash rebate in the form of precious metals easily exchanged for cash at the current melt-value.

So you become a metal salesperson. Continue reading →

ZOOMSHOP – Tibetan Magic Earrings

April 10, 2015Uncategorizedcopper, death, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelsofancientlands, life, magic, reincarnation, tibetan coppergorebagg

EJ Gold & Tarthang Tulku at Buddhist Meditation Center with Venerable Tich Thien-An.

TIBETAN MAGIC BEADS have long been valued by Westerners for many centuries. So many occult powers can be attributed to Tibetan Magical Beads that merely listing them would take up the entire instruction sheet. Look on the internet for more information about Tibetan Buddhism, and experience the power of Tibetan Magic yourself, by wearing your very own Jewels of Ancient Lands Tibetan Magic Earrings! Continue reading →

Build TWO Modernist Copper Pendants for only $1.25 Each!!!

April 2, 2015Uncategorizedcopper, drop, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, modernist, pendant, smithinggorebagg

Pinky & Lucky Duck are avid collectors of Modernist jewelry, and make their own.

Here is a simple design for TWO Modernist Copper Pendants. Modernism began back in the early 1930s, springing from the avant-garde schools that followed the post-impressionists and the postwar schools of art both in American and Europe in the 1940s and into the 1950s. Continue reading →

ZOOMSHOP Roman Style Earring KIT

March 31, 2015Uncategorizedcopper, earrings, ejgold, garnet, gorby, gorebagg, jal, kit, pearl, roman, zoomshopgorebagg

These are not the exact same earrings — I don’t have a photo of them.

Your Roman-Style Pearl & Garnet Copper Earrings will be exactly the type and design worn by many Roman women 2,000 years ago.

The Much older Greek civilization and its influence on Roman jewelry is quite clear. The Romans copied all things Greek — Hellenistic statues, jewelry, clothing, foods and some social customs were eagerly adopted by the Roman conquerors, and Greek objects flooded into the Empire, carried to the mainland by Roman merchant ships and Trade Route caravans.

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ZOOMSHOP – UR Earrings

March 25, 2015Uncategorizedancient, babylon, copper, earrings, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, kit, pearl, sumer, ur, zoomshopgorebagg

Your Ur-Style Pearl & Copper Earrings could easily have been worn by a woman of the early Bronze Age, when metallurgical embellishments included granulation, as do the ones you’ll be making. Granulation is a hand-craft. The beautiful but slightly irregularly shaped off-round pearls are similar to the Mediterranean pearl, the last of which were fished out of the sea many centuries ago.

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